A couple of Indian Land High School students can add their names to the school’s list of signed athletes this year after receiving word from the University of South Carolina in Columbia that they have made the team.

Only this time the team isn’t on the gridiron or court, it’s on the sidelines.

Seniors Alexis Barjona and Megan Leskody were among more than 120 cheerleaders from across the state to try out for coveted spots on the Gamecocks’ two cheerleading squads and were among the 54 who made it.

Iron man Cal Ripkin Jr. isn’t the only one with an unforgettable number. The baseball hall of famer played in 2,632 consecutive games.
Two county students have their own streaks within their respective school hallways.
For 12 years, Andrew Jackson High School’s Jordan Truesdale and Buford High School’s Lauren Bradburn managed to make it out of bed every day and go to class. That equals to 2,160 consecutive school days for each of them.
Neither of them have missed a day of school since the first grade.

A couple of weeks after Sears and Roebuck sent back Aunt Bessie’s check for my J.C. Higgins Roadmaster, stuff was changing in a hurry.
One of ‘em was my opinion of President Roosevelt. I thought he had made a big mistake. I just couldn’t figure out how one bicycle could contribute so mightily to the war effort.
Mama was reading the morning paper about how tires, gasoline, sugar, electric ice boxes, Hershey Bars, and shoes, among other things would be in short supply for the home folks.

Growing up, Stuart Graham attended Van Wyck Presbyterian Church with his family.
Just two doors down from there stood a bright yellow home known throughout the tight knit community as the old Hyatt house.
At the time, Graham never realized the keys to the 1898 Victorian-style home at 5154 Old Hickory Road would one day be in his pocket.
Graham had always admired the house and was excited to learn in 2003 it was to be sold at an auction.

Opinions and advice on how to achieve good health or overcome health problems are a “dime-a-dozen” nearly everywhere.
But it means a lot more to hear a personal story from someone you know, who’s succeeded in achieving better health.
It’s even better if their program is simple, easy to understand and affordable.
Konstantinos “Gus” Deligiannidis, owner of Gus’ Restaurants in Kershaw and Lancaster, has a story of his own journey to good health, and he’s doing something to share it.

FORT LAWN – In 1996, third-generation farmers David and Jimmy Jordan were looking for a crop that could be watered and didn’t require very much rain.
Their options were limited, given their location just north of Fort Lawn on S.C. 21. That was something the Jordan boys learned young, while watching their grandfather try to scratch out a cotton crop on the same ground.
“We’d sit on the porch and watch thunderstorms come through and go around this place every single time, making our granddaddy so mad he could spit,” David Jordan said.

The newly restored historic Lancaster Courthouse is getting a face-lift of another kind outside.

The Lancaster Council of Garden Clubs (LCGC) is coordinating an ongoing project to plant and maintain a flower garden at the courthouse’s rear entrance, which faces the Catawba Street courtyard.

This is no ordinary flower garden. The garden will showcase local and state plants, as well as provide a habitat for birds and butterflies. The garden will also include historic components to provide a community learning experience.

If you live in the country, you may be hearing a noise right now you just can’t explain.
That’s not some huge industrial machine humming miles away and it’s not your imagination gone wild. There’s nothing wrong with your hearing.
It’s the return of the 13-year cicadas, which have re-emerged from underground to mate.
Jane Massey of Van Wyck has already seen more than her share of these fearful-looking, red-eyed insects flitting about.

– Editor’s note: W.B. Evans is on vacation this week. Due to reader requests, we are reprinting this Remember When column, which was originally published in the May 13, 2007, edition of The Lancaster News. “Mamas cannot be replaced, but our memories help keep them alive,” Evans said. “I’m getting mushy, but somehow I feels that she knows I still care, at least, if The Lancaster News is on the newsstands in heaven!”